Top Ten Tuesday – Favourite Book Quotes

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A great book quote can stick with you for a lifetime. It was fun to think back to my personal favourites, for this week’s topic from That Artsy Reader Girl.

– 1 –

“Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.”
– Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

– 2 –

“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
– Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

– 3 –

“They think they want good government and justice for all, Vimes, yet what is it they really crave, deep in their hearts? Only that things go on as normal and tomorrow is pretty much like today.”
– Terry Pratchett, Feet of Clay

– 4 –

“The trouble with being a god is that you’ve got no one to pray to.”
– Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

– 5 –
“Loneliness, she thought, was craving for other people’s company. But she did not know that loneliness can be an unnoticed cramping of the spirit for lack of companionship.”

– Doris Lessing, The Grass Is Singing

– 6 –
“Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you’re there.”

– Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

– 7 –
“Follow me, reader! Who told you that there is no true, faithful, eternal love in this world! May the liar’s vile tongue be cut out! Follow me, my reader, and me alone, and I will show you such a love!”

– Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

– 8 –
“Are you a devil?”
“I am a man,” answered Father Brown gravely; “and therefore have all devils in my heart.”

– G. K. Chesterton, The Hammer of God

– 9 –
“No wonder kids grow up crazy. A cat’s cradle is nothing but a bunch of X’s between somebody’s hands, and little kids look and look and look at all those X’s . . .”
“And?”
“No damn cat, and no damn cradle.”

– Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle

– 10 –
“Beauty will save the world.”

– Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

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